433 | CPWI Hymnal#434a | 434b |
Text: | O God of truth, whose living word |
Author: | Thomas Hughes, 1822-1896 |
Tune: | ST MARY |
Composer: | Edmund Prys, 1544-1623 |
1 O God of truth, whose living word
upholds whate’er hath breath,
look down on thy creation, Lord,
enslaved by sin and death.
2 Set up thy standard, Lord, that we,
who claim a heavenly birth,
may march with thee to smite the lies
that vex thy groaning earth.
3 Ah, would we join that blest array,
and follow in the might
of him, the Faithful and the True,
in raiment clean and white?
4 We fight for truth? We fight for God?
Poor slaves of lies and sin!
He who would fight for thee on earth
must first be true within.
5 Then, God of truth, for whom we long,
thou who wilt hear our prayer,
do thine own battle in our hearts,
and slay the falsehood there.
6 Yea, come! Then, tried as in the fire,
from every lie set free,
thy perfect truth shall dwell in us,
and we shall live in thee.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O God of truth, whose living word |
Author: | Thomas Hughes, 1822-1896 (alt.) |
Meter: | C.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Topic: | General Hymns: Christian Warfare |
Notes: | A higher setting of ST MARY is found at 111 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST MARY |
Composer: | Edmund Prys, 1544-1623 |
Meter: | C.M. |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | Llyfr y Psalmau, London, 1621 |